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Song Name: Madhava Ki Kahaba Daiba Bipaka
Official Name: Song 57
Author: Govinda Dasa Kaviraja
Book Name: Padavali
Language: Bengali
LYRICS:
(Refrain)
mādhaba ki kahaba
daiba-bipāka
patha-āgamana
kathā kata nā kahiba he
yadi haya mukha lākhe
lākha
(1)
mandira teja yāba pada cāri ā-olu
niśi heri kampita
ańga
timira duranta patha hera-i nā pāriye
pada-yuga beḍhala
bhujańga
(2)
eke
kula-kāminī tāhe
kuhu-yāminī
ghora gahana ati dūra
ā;re tahe
jaladhara barakhiye jhara jhara
(3)
eke pada-pańkaja pańke bibhūṣita
tuyā daraśana
āśe kachu nāhi
jānalu
cira-dukha aba dūre
(4)
tohāri muralī
yaba śrabaṇe
prabeśala
choḍalu
gṛha-sukha āśa
pantha dukha
tṛṇahu kari nā
gaṇalu
kahatahi gobinda-dāsa
TRANSLATION
(Refrain) O Krsna, how can
I describe my fate? How many calamities fell on me as I walked here on the
path? Even if I had millions and millions of mouths, I could not describe them
all.
1) Leaving my house, I
began walking here. When I saw night fall, my body trembled. Great darkness
made the path impassable. I had no power to see anything. Snakes slithered
about my feet.
2) I was all alone. The
night was fearful. The path was very long. Then clouds rained and rained. Every
place was flooded. Where could I go?
3) My lotus feet became
adorned with mud. Again and again I was pricked by thorns. I yearned to see
You. I didn't know where to go. Then my long sufferings fled far away.
4) The sound of Your
flute-music entered my ears. Then I turned away from any wish to be happy in my
home. Now I think all the troubles I met on that path to be insignificant like
a blade of grass. So says Govinda dasa.
REMARKS/EXTRA INFORMATION:
This
song is sung in Raga Dhanasri.